Software for Land Management Planning

Multiple-resource
Analysis and Geographic
Information System

MAGIS is a Spatial Decision Support System for scheduling a variety of
vegetation treatments and road-related activities including construction,
reconstruction, and obliteration. MAGIS uses optimization to
select the spatial arrangement and timing of treatments that fits user-determined
objectives and constraints. MAGIS users can also specify the location
and timing for specific treatments to test 'what-if' scenarios.
MAGIS
includes a wide variety of options for analysis and is designed for spatial
watershed analysis with wide objectives and issues. A variety of
resource effects, management targets, and economic costs or benefits can
be used to specify the objective and constraints for scheduling both vegetation
treatments and road activities. Solutions are represented as maps and
in tables. MAGIS can be used by GIS experts and by GIS novices.

MAGIS eXpress is designed for tactical-level
planning of vegetation treatment projects, particularly when road access
is an issue, such as treatments involving commercial timber harvest.
It represents a scaled-back version of MAGIS and has some restrictions
for user-defined parameters. It does, however include a dedicated solver
that obviates the need for the user to obtain the commercial solver used
by MAGIS.

MAGIS was developed by the Economic Aspects
of Forest Management Unit of the Rocky Mountain Research Station. located
at the Missoula Forestry Sciences Laboratory, in cooperation with the
University of Montana. The developers include Greg Jones (Principle Investigator),
Hans Zuuring (Principle Investigator,University of Montana), Janet Sullivan,
Kurt Krueger, Will Wood (former employee), and Judy Troutwine(University
of Montana). Programming partners include Scott Hassler of Hastec Associates,
Stewart Britain (ind. contractor), and Carroll Nelson and Associates.
The implementation team includes Kevin Hyde
(METI corp.), Robin Silverstein and Edward Butler (University of Montana),
who are available to assist end-users to build and analyze MAGIS models.

MAGIS and MAGIS eXpress are in the public domain (software) and may be
re-distributed but not sold, reverse-engineered or otherwise de-constructed.

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MAGIS requires ArcGIS 9.1 or 9.2

Spatial data in MAGIS start with GIS coverages or shapefiles.
In MAGIS, spatial data are refined with GIS-derived data input screens.
We use embedded ArcGIS (ArcObjects and Visual Basic) input and display
screens to provide easy-to-use interfaces for model building, and data-preparation
utilities for MAGIS modeling. Data entry interfaces allow the user
to set up road and traffic cost, road options, and treatment options,
including where timber harvest might be loaded on to the network.
When MAGIS solutions are derived, GIS-based display screens allow the
user to analyze the spatial and temporal aspects of the solution in a
variety of ways. Read more about GIS